The Teaching Russian Conference - Call for Papers

[Megan Swift]

Dear Colleagues,

The Teaching Russian Conference is a small, friendly conference  
targeted at sharing innovative ideas for the Russian language,  
literature and culture classroom.  It is hosted annually at the scenic  
University of Victoria (Canada).  Please join us July 22-23 2010.   
Teachers of Russian at the university and secondary levels are invited  
to submit proposals.


The

TEACHING RUSSIAN CONFERENCE



July 22-23, 2010

(Thursday – Friday)



University of Victoria

Victoria, British Columbia



CALL FOR PAPERS



Due to the success of last year’s conference, the Department of  
Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria invites  
proposals for individual papers, panels and round-table discussions on  
the theme of “Teaching Russian”.



Topics of special interest include, but are not limited to: innovative  
curriculum development and pedagogical techniques in teaching Russian  
language, literature and/or culture; dealing effectively with heritage- 
speaker communities; implementing travel/study abroad programs;  
teaching Russian at the secondary level; choosing appropriate teaching  
tools at the introductory/intermediate/advanced level (textbooks and  
computer-assisted language learning); innovative language  
technologies; growing and maintaining healthy Russian programs.



Website: http://russconf.uvic.ca (All forms for submitting proposals  
are available on the website)



Deadline for proposals:  20 May 2010. Notification of the Program  
Committee’s decisions will be sent out by June 1, 2010.



For all questions, please contact Megan Swift (maswift at uvic.ca)  
(250.721.7504)

Abstract specifications:

To apply for participation in the conference, please fill out the  
respective forms (CV and individual paper proposal form; roundtable  
proposal form and/or panel proposal form), which are available on our  
website: http://russconf.uvic.ca.   Abstracts should not exceed 400  
words. Please use MS Word for Windows and Times New Roman or MS Word  
for Apple and TimesCE or pure Unicode text. Make sure to use the  
Library of Congress transliteration system to render words in a  
Cyrillic alphabet. Your abstract should present a research question  
and outline your plan for investigating this scholarly problem. Each  
abstract will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Abstracts sent by  
attachment may be emailed to Megan Swift (maswift at uvic.ca).  If  
electronic submission is not possible, send hard copies of your  
proposal to:



Megan Swift, Assistant Professor

Department of Germanic and Russian Studies

University of Victoria

PO Box 3045 STN CSC, Victoria BC.

V8W 3P4 Canada.



Tel. 250.721.7504

Fax 250.721.7319







  
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